Jonathon Wilson

Sprung from the obviously rather demented mind of Nicolas Winding Refn, Copenhagen Cowboy is a deliberately confounding show, a kaleidoscopic, macabre dreamscape that doesn’t play...

Throughout these recaps, I’ve speculated about Miu. I’ve described her often as a kind of moral good in human form, sheer will in a tracksuit....

What is Miu? And by that, I don’t mean is she an angel or an alien or anything like that. I mean what function does...

Appearances can be deceiving. A family home might be a secret sex trafficking operation. A Chinese restaurant might hide a body-chomping pig farm being utilized...

Lonely — that’s the word. That’s what everyone in Copenhagen Cowboy seems to be. Even in group scenes, everyone is quiet, looking at the ground...

If most shows opened with a woman being strangled in a pig farm, her choking interspersed with the frantic squealing of sows, I’d think it...

Every director has at least one bizarre, self-indulgent work in them, the kind of thing the studio system won’t let them make, that audiences can’t...

The Bad Batch is a strange show in the Star Wars continuity. It’s animated, like The Clone Wars and Rebels (and Resistance, though we’re mostly...

Hot on the heels of what was probably the best episode of the season, “Beyond the Shattered Sea” splurges all that newfound goodwill on a...

Did you know that on every equinox, the late afternoon sun casts a shadow down the northern staircase of the Temple of Kukulcán at Chichen...

Well, folks, “A Knife and No Coin” is the last episode of Yellowstone until the summer – don’t worry, you’ve got 1923 to enjoy in...

Little has changed in the world of The Way of the Househusband. Adapted from Kousuke Oono’s manga series, the Netflix anime was a surprisingly funny...

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, or so Gandhi would have it, but try telling that to victims of bullying –...

In The Mosquito Coast Season 2 Episode 8, Dina essentially escaped Casa Roja with reluctant help from Adolfo. Interestingly enough, Episode 9 starts with the young...

Goodness, this is a bland show, isn’t it? I watch a lot of TV, obviously, but it’s very rare that I sit down to write...

Treason is a five-part Netflix espionage thriller written by Bridge of Spies scribe Matt Charman. Its protagonist is Adam Lawrence, an MI6 agent who, under circumstances, is...

If my memory serves me, Airk has only appeared in Willow once since he was kidnapped way back in the premiere, and it was in a brief...

I don’t like the term “Mary Sue”, since its original definition has long since been contorted to mean, essentially, “a woman is the protagonist and...

Despite being released before Christmas for fans in the UK thanks to BBC iPlayer refusing to play by the rules, U.S. audiences have had to...

Set 1200 years before the events depicted in The Witcher Season 1 and Season 2, both streaming on Netflix along with another spin-off, the animated feature...